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I wonder if there will be a name change.
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7 hours ago, iron_lion said:
For example CBS has two soaps. Y&R would air Mon to Wed from 1 to 1:30 and B&B would air Thu-Fri from 1-1:30. Give the affiliates that empty 30 minutes.
So, is having one soap on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and the other soap on Tuesdays and Thursdays too complicated?
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On 8/6/2022 at 7:41 PM, iron_lion said:
The only way I could see soaps surviving is if they're truncated to 30 minutes two or three days a week with cast trimmings, rather than a hard five day a week one hour model.
What about the other two days?
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On 7/11/2022 at 1:26 PM, ddaniels20 said:
Update: WLNY's 9PM news will now be known as CBS News New York Now as of the 18th. (That's a lot of Ns...)
Sad since they just started using the WLNY name during that newscast again not too long ago, but it was probably inevitable at this point.
Other ideas:
CBS New York News Now.CBS News York Now.
CBS News Now York.
Now CBS New York News.
Now News New York CBS.
Now New News York Now Now Now.
Now Bedtime.
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5 hours ago, RGSJenkins said:
Especially after the paint on their vehicles, black and yellow nor KDKA ain't going nowhere any time soon.
Oooo... That looks good.
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So, while CNN proper was focused on its "The Fourth in America" special tonight, their live coverage of the Highland Park, IL, mass shooting was instead airing, for at least a little while, on HLN. That was a pleasant surprise.
Rather conveniently, the coverage preempted an episode of Very Scary People.
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2 hours ago, mrschimpf said:
I saw this last night on a 10pm show, where a few other important stories which were developing were 'but first, breaking news!'ed for a minor car accident during a police chase...that happened at 5pm and was long cleaned up
. If you as the viewer knows the other stories rundown deserved prominence, the news organization has failed to do its job.
I believe there's a saying for this: "If it bleeds, it leads."
The fact that it bled five hours ago is apparently immaterial.
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21 hours ago, ref1997 said:
Ugh I hate the branding confusion now… we have replacement names “MSNBC Reports” for the generic dayside newscasts, “MSNBC Prime” for the prime time shows, and now we have “MSNBC Live” which I have no idea what purpose this branding is trying to serve
Plus the bug is also confusing for repeats because the word “LIVE” (show name) is throughout the show but it’s not actually live…
All we need is "MSNBC Overnight".
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Maybe they should move all the opinionated shows to HLN. It'd be better than 19 hours a day of Forensic Files.
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4 hours ago, Adam MadMan said:
Who's doing their business planning, underpants gnomes?
I got confused when I saw the name on the list. When I went for Google, it just sent me to radio.com, the website of Audacy (formerly Entercom). I had to put in the actual URL to get the right page.
Needless to say, I don't expect them to win either.
Their website looks like it was designed for mobile devices with no consideration for desktop browsers (or anything with a screen resolution greater than 1000px wide). That's just lazy.
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WMUR's Tom Griffith is retiring in a few months, with his last day being June 3rd.
https://www.wmur.com/article/wmur-new-hampshire-tom-griffith-retirement/39653352#
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1 hour ago, jrogo said:
Jason Kilar to leave WarnerMedia this Friday, his last major decision was firing Jeff Zucker & Allison Gollust and then hiring Chris Licht to lead CNN.
That's more like two or three decisions, but either way, he's ending strong.
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Well, it wasn't an exit interview per se, but Colbert did devote a segment of tonight's show to Licht's news.
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Colbert should given him an on-air exit interview.
I'm completely serious.
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18 hours ago, mrschimpf said:
Honestly, I'd be happy to just pay for CNN at $7/month (if they fix the worst of Zucker's obnoxiousness)...I don't want a watered-down news product. But I honestly still find value in a cable subscription on the TV side, where I don't even have to think about remembering a password/username combo to watch a live event.
That's what a password manager is for.
(Though entering a password pinball-style using a Roku remote sucks.)
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2 hours ago, froyo49 said:
Because an increasing number of people, including myself, don't want to spend upwards of $60 a month on a bundle of channels.
Bingo. Heck, the only reason I still have cable TV is because I live with my mother and know she wouldn't want to give it up.
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On 2/2/2022 at 1:16 PM, iron_lion said:
Good! CNN is a shell of its former self. It desperately needs new leadership.
You know what's also a shell of its former self? HLN. Whoever ends up in charge at CNN either needs to do something about it or let Discovery flip it into something else.
Maybe Morning Express can move to CNN+. The company already has Investigation Discovery, so HLN's catalog of non-news programming can simply move over there.While I'd personally prefer to see CNN International get HLN's cable channel, I'm not holding out hope for that. Remember Al Jazeera America? It had to be US-centric to appease cable compnies, not simply Al Jazeera English.
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4 hours ago, MidwestTV said:
Tegna appears to be working on a new website design. WVEC is one of the test stations. https://www.13newsnow.com
Though the URLs could certainly still use work.
Yeah, that string of URL spew at the end is ugly.
A bigger issue, though, is that the site isn't responsive; rather, they're still using a separate mobile site.
Also, the WVEC logo is tiny! It should be at least twice as big, like I've done below.
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On 1/3/2020 at 6:33 PM, Robin Red said:
I agree that morning shows have gotten silly but I think we are that point where since not many people are watching they have watered everything done. I don't know who really watches morning shows aside for stay at moms or most likely people who are assisted living or nurisng homes. I don't know any young people watching morning show.
Oh, come on. There are more options here than "stay-at-home moms" and people in assisted living/nursing homes. There are:
- Retired people
- People who work non-"standard" hours and are thus free to have the TV on in the mornings if they're awake
- People who work from home and are thus also free to have the TV on
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Stay-at-home dads
And those are just the ones I can think of.
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On 11/24/2019 at 12:28 AM, TheRyan said:
Some shocking news from the KOLR10 studios. A van drove through their security gate and starting speaking some weird unintelligible stuff. They were arrested. Damaged some vehicles and a satellite dish at the station. Literally just saw this and thought it was important enough to share. (The story only takes up the first 1:45 or so of this video.)
A talking van?
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6 minutes ago, oknewsguy said:
In a way it looks like Tribune influence is overtaking Nexstar and in reality, it helps that several Tribune executives came on board with Nexstar after the merger.
Much like how several former LIN executives who had stayed on with Media General were able to influence Nexstar when it bought MG.
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8 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said:
You mean the 4am program... FOX 5 Behind The Scenes? Yeah, I'd like to know too.
Maybe they turn a camera on and let viewers watch them get ready to go for the day.
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On 10/3/2019 at 1:33 AM, DirtyHarry said:
...department and appliance stores no longer can advertise in papers...
Why not?
Nexstar Acquires 75% of The CW
in General TV
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I'd say it depends on the station. "PIX 11" and "KTLA 5" work better than "The CW 11" and "The CW 5" because those stations were much more established independent of the network. The same would be true of WGN should it regain the affiliation. But it mid-tier or low-tier markets where the affiliate never had an identity outside of their affiliation? Probably not.
Of course, it's entirely possible that Nexstar could up and change the network's name...